Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | China’s loans to African countries have been questioned with experts saying China is here to actualize self-interests. This featured prominently in discussions at the 2019 Kampala Geopolitics Conference in Makerere University. Ingo Badoreck, the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) director Rule of Law programme in West Africa …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police’s Human Resource Management -HRM Director Col Jesse Kamunanwire has announced the recruitment of 923 Probation Police Constables – PPCs to replace those dropped at Police Training School – PTS at Kabalye in Masindi district. In Kamunanwire’s letter on October 18th addressed to Regional …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Minister of Lands and Urban Development, Betty Amongi has intervened in the row between Lira municipal council authorities and the Town Clerk. The Minister’s intervention stemmed from the recent petition by the Lira Municipal Development Forum-MDF, a committee that oversees the implementation of USMID …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Technology experts are calling on government and training institutions to prepare the next generation of the workforce for an aggressive world of robotics and artificial intelligence machines. They say without taking a deliberate policy to skill the next generation of workers, robots and machine …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The movement of able-bodied people from their countries for odd jobs in the Gulf States of Saudi Arabia, Oman, United Arab Emirates, and Qatar should be a cause for worry among African states. Hilda Namakula, a researcher from Makerere University says that Chinese and …
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Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Measles – Rubella immunization team in Kalangala on Friday evening survived drowning after their boat collided with another canoe boat on Lake Victoria. The team has been traversing the Islands in Mazinga sub county. An eye witness Gerald Kalyango in a telephone interview …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Members of Parliament are protesting the distribution of hoes in their constituencies without their involvement. President Yoweri Museveni in his 2016 election manifesto promised to avail hoes to every household to support agricultural production. Addressing a press conference on Friday at …
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Juba, South Sudan | THE INDEPENDENT | Eye Radio in Juba is reporting that Dr Riek Machar has flown in for long overdue talks for his permanent return to the country. The United States recently said it will consider sanctions on leaders in South Sudan if they fail to form …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A yet to be identified woman died Saturday morning in accident involving a truck that failed to break on Kiira road stretch near Total Petrol station. The woman was on the boda boda but reportedly jumped off in panic as the truck started to hoot frantically. …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | African States have been told to improve on the quality of their negotiation towards China Financing for infrastructural projects. China is a major donor to African states, but many are worried that the mountains of cash for infrastructure development might actually end up as a …
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